The holidays can be one of the most colorful times of the season – sparkling lights, lush green Christmas trees and bright red ribbons are all around. So when it's time to dress up for that festive end-of-the-year soiree, the best way to stand out in a crowd is to not wear color at all.

It is not often that Isaac Mizrahi, the quick-witted fashion designer turned television personality, is left speechless, but so he was one recent afternoon on the set of his new show, "Isaac." Curled on an electric-orange lounge chair, Mizrahi was interviewing actress Sela Ward and playing an innocuous game of fill-in-the-blank with her. "Southern women never do blank," he asked Ward, a Mississippian.